Professors

Berill BLAIR

Associate Professor

sustainability, Climate services, Natural resource management, Arctic systems

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Berill BLAIR

Academy

Globalization

Research center

SKEMA Centre for Sustainability Studies

Location

Paris

Discipline

Strategy, Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Berill Blair is Associate Professor of Management and Sustainability at SKEMA Business School. Her research focuses on natural resource management and the climate resilience and adaptation of organizations, sectors, and regions. She frequently collaborates with partners across academia, institutions, business, and communities in climate-impacted locales. Berill's projects span a wide mix of climate-related challenges, including climate services and forecasting to support sectoral and firm-level decision-making and scenario-based strategic adaptation. Her work often engages Arctic and maritime contexts.

 

Education
2017
PhD Natural Resources and Sustainability, University of Alaska Fairbanks, United States of America
2010
Master of Arts, Global Environmental Policy, University of Alaska Fairbanks, United States of America
2002
Bachelor of Science, Computer science, Western Oregon University , United States of America
2012
Resilience and Adaptation Program Fellow, University of Alaska Fairbanks, United States of America
Experience
Full-time academic positions
Since 2022
Associate Professor, SKEMA Business School, France
2017 - 2022
Postdoctoral researcher, Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands
Research grants, Awards and Honors
Awards and Honors
2012
Resilience and Adaptation Program Fellowship, University of Alaska Fairbanks, United States of America
Research Grants
2020
Advancing sea ice and weather information in the Arctic to support sustainable development, Research Council of Norway
2014
Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, National Science Foundation, United States of America
Other research activities
Reviewer for:
Weather, Climate, and Society, Ecology and Society
Organization of a conference or a research seminar
2024
GRONEN 2024, Group for Research on Organizations and the Natural Environment
2023
Co-convener, ISAGA 2023 workshop, International Simulation and Gaming Association
2023
Co-convener, EGU 2023 session SC3.15, European Geosciences Union
2018
European PolarBoard Open Session (PPP-SERA), World Meteorological Organization, The Netherlands
2014
Resilience 2014 | Session 'Pathways of Resilience in a Rapidly Changing Alaska', CIRAD, France

Peer-reviewed journal articles

BRUIN, R., COOPER, E., LAMERS, M. and BLAIR, B. (2025). Sustaining the brand and branding sustainability: landscape as homeland in Greenland’s visual marketing. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 33(11), pp. 2484-2503.
BLAIR, B., GIERISCH, A., JEURING, J., OLSEN, S. and LAMERS, M. (2022). Mind the gap! A consensus analysis of users and producers on trust in new sea ice information products. Climate Services, 28, pp. 100323.
BLAIR, B., MÜLLER, M., PALERME, C., BLAIR, R., CROOKALL, D., KNOL-KAUFFMAN, M. and LAMERS, M. (2022). Coproducing Sea-Ice Predictions with Stakeholders Using Simulation. Weather, Climate, and Society, 14(2), pp. 399-413.
BLAIR, B. (2021). Marine Meteorological forecasts for Coastal Ocean Users–Perceptions, Usability and Uptake. Geoscience Communication, 4(3), pp. 361-381.
BLAIR, B. and KOFINAS, G.P. (2020). Cross-scale risk perception: differences between tribal leaders and resource managers in Arctic Alaska. Ecology and Society, 25(4, art. 9).
BLAIR, B. and LOVECRAFT, A.L. (2020). Risks Without Borders: A Cultural Consensus Model of Risks to Sustainability in Rapidly Changing Social–Ecological Systems. Sustainability, 12(6), pp. 2446.
BLAIR, B., LEE, O.A. and LAMERS, M. (2020). Four Paradoxes of the User–Provider Interface: A Responsible Innovation Framework for Sea Ice Services. Sustainability, 12(2), pp. 448.
BLAIR, B., LOVECRAFT, A.L. and KOFINAS, G.P. (2014). Meeting institutional criteria for social resilience: a nested risk system model. Ecology and Society, 19(4), pp. 36.

Book chapters

BLAIR, B., LOVECRAFT, A. and HUM, R. (2018). The disaster chronotope: Spatial and temporal learning in governance of extreme events. In: Giuseppe Forino, Sara Bonati, Lina Maria Calandra eds. Governance of Risk, Hazards and Disasters: Trends in Theory and Practice. 1st ed. London: Routledge, pp. 43-64.

Keynote speaker

BLAIR, B. (2023). Nurturing Systems Thinking in Project Management. In: Sketching Tomorrow. Paris.

Guest editor of a journal special issue

BLAIR, B. (2024). Climate and ocean education and communication: practice, ethics, and urgency. Geoscience Communication.

Conference presentations

BLAIR, B. and CROOKALL, D. (2023). Harnessing the power of debriefing to enhance your geo-work. In: European Geosciences Union General Assembly. Vienna.
BLAIR, B., LAMERS, M., MÜLLER, M., GIERISCH, A., BLAIR, R., CROOKALL, D. and KNOL-KAUFFMAN, M. (2020). ICEWISE: A game to test the effects of sea ice forecast reliability on voyage planners’ confidence. In: European Geosciences Union General Assembly. Vienna.
BLAIR, B. (2020). Socio-economic scenarios to aid coproduction of climate services in sea ice social-ecological systems. In: Arctic Frontiers. Tromsø.
BLAIR, B. (2018). An Agent-based Mobilities Assessment for Enhanced Arctic Climate Services. In: Polar 2018 Conference, Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research and the International Arctic ScienceCommittee. Davos.
BLAIR, B. (2017). Toward Arctic Transformations and Sustainability: Modeling Risks and Resilience Across Scales of Governance. In: Swiss Academy of Sciences. Crans Montana.
BLAIR, B. (2017). Modeling Risk Priorities: Comparing Views on Sustainability between North Slope Tribal Leaders and State and Federal experts. In: Alaska Forum on the Environment. Anchorage, Alaska.
BLAIR, B. (2015). Raising the New Without Razing the Old: Arctic Alaska Communities Navigating Sustainability and Risks in the New Millennium. In: First Central European Polar Meeting. Vienna.
BLAIR, B. (2014). Engaging scale and meaning in formulating policy learningfor disaster governance. In: Arctic Change. Ottawa.
BLAIR, B. and COST, D. (2014). Long-term planning for healthy sustainable communities: A focus on risks, learning and education. In: Arctic Science Conference. Fairbanks, Alaska.
BLAIR, B., LOVECRAFT, A. and KOFINAS, G.P. (2014). Meeting institutional criteria for social resilience: A nested risk system model. In: Resilience 2014. Montpellier.
BLAIR, B. (2014). Risk Perception as a Complex Dynamic System: Scenarios as a Tool for Assessment. In: Alaska Forum on the Environment. Anchorage, Alaska.

Faculty research seminar presentations

BLAIR, B. (2023). Sustainability & Climate Change: Thoughts on research and education. In: EDEN Doctoral Seminar, SKEMA Business School. Paris.

Technical reports

BLAIR, B., MÁÑEZ-COSTA, M., OEN, A., NESSET, T., CELLIERS, L., SUHARI, M. ... SCHUCK-ZÖLLER, S. (2022). Co-production of Climate Services: A diversity of approaches and good practice from the ERA4CS projects (2017–2021). Linkoping University Electronic Press.
BLAIR, B. and MÜLLER-STOFFELS, M. (2019). Maritime Futures 2035: The Arctic Region. Wageningen: Wageningen University , The Netherlands.